NYT 🐝 Clues—Sun. 15 January, 2023

Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.

Letters: b  a  i  l  n  p  t

  • Total Answers: 22
  • Pangrams: 1
  • Words revealed in these clues: None! 🤣

AL

  1. AL5 — an explanation that frees one from fault or blame; as in explain, rationalize; apology; defense; excuse sounds like blubber, caliber, club, clubbed, clubby

BA

  1. BA4sounds like bobby
  2. BA4 — as in bond, recognizance; as in loop, bow; as in hod; bond; recognizance sounds like ail, ale
  3. BA4 — something used to attract animals to a hook or into a trap; something that persuades one to perform an action for pleasure or gain; to attack repeatedly with mean put-downs or insults; decoy; lure sounds like abate, ate
  4. BA4 — a more or less round body or mass; a usually round or cone-shaped little piece of lead made to be fired from a firearm; a social gathering for dancing; globe; orb sounds like all, bell, bile, bill, boar
  5. BA5 — lacking in qualities that make for spirit and character; used or heard so often as to be dull; flat; insipid; milk-and-water sounds like bizarre, bubble, buckle, bun, bunch
  6. BA6 — as in comedian, wit; as in comedian, second banana; comedian; comedienne; comic sounds like bonanza

BI

  1. BI8sounds like bubble, bumble, collegial, colonial, gullible
  2. BI4 — a record of goods sold or services performed together with the costs due; a piece of printed paper used as money in the United States; a sheet bearing an announcement for posting in a public place; account; check sounds like bail, bale, ball, bawl, been

BL

  1. BL4 — to engage in casual or rambling conversation; to relate sometimes questionable or secret information of a personal nature; as in chatter, babble; babble; cackle sounds like lab, slab
  2. BL4 — to utter with a sudden burst of strong feeling; as in bleat, honk; blurt (out); bolt; cry (out) sounds like bat, brat, flat, slat
  3. BL7 — engaging in or marked by loud and insistent cries especially of protest; very noticeable especially for being incorrect or bad; caterwauling; clamant; clamorous sounds like latent
  4. BL4 — as in crepe, blintze; blintze; crepe; oatcake; wheat cake sounds like been, bin
  5. BL5 — as in crepes, blintzes; blintzes; crepes; oatcakes; wheat cakes sounds like baloney, beady, bean, beefy, bikini
  6. BL4 — as in cut, remove; bleep; clip; cut; excise sounds like clip, flip, lip, slip

LA

  1. LA5sounds like abbey, lobbied, lobby, phobia, shabby
  2. LA6sounds like babble, dabble, libel, liberal, lineal

PA

  1. PA9sounds like pinball

PI

  1. PI7

TA

  1. TA5

TI

  1. TI5sounds like phobia, tabby, trivia, tuba
  2. TI6sounds like cereal, filial, liberal, lineal, nibble

alibi, baba, bail, bait, ball, banal, banana, bilabial, bill, blab, blat, blatant, blin, blini, blip, labia, labial, paintball, pinball, tabla, tibia, tibial